‘WE ARE COMING FOR YOU’

OPPOSITION leaders with unexplained wealth and those involved in dubious privatisation deals should expect to be challenged if they aspire for Presidency.

Those who sold companies for a song and those who borrowed heavily from public institution and later failed to pay taxes should not expect the Zambian people to sit idly as they file nominations for Presidency. Zambia Republican Party President Wright Musoma said apart from everything else UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema would be challenged to explain his role in the privatisation and in particular the sale of Intercontinental hotels for a song. Similarly, Socialist Party president Fred M’membe will have to explain his role in the K15 million Zambia Airways loan debacle and his tax evasion case through which he lost his Post Newspaper company. Mr. Musoma has since urged the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) to widen its net and stop treating some individuals as sacred cows when it comes to corruption prosecution. Mr Musoma said corruption allegations against some political figures have been in the public domain for a long time but the ACC was giving a blind eye. He said Mr Hichilema should not think that people had forgotten about what he did during privatisation and neither should M’membe assume that there are no questions over his questionable handling of tax issues of the defunct Post Newspaper. Mr Musoma said he would ensure that the opposition leader explained to the people how he made the country to be in disarray because of his selfish interest. Mr Musoma said as the country was drawing towards the 2021 general elections, he would challenge Mr Hichilema so that he would tell the people the truth, stating this when the people of Zambia would decide who was better to govern the nation. He said it was important that the people Zambia elected a leader who had the interest of the nation at heart than those who want to go to State House for personal gains. Mr Musoma said Zambia needed a person who would take it to the next level and not worsen the situation. He said it was obvious that the country would not be in safe hands if Mr Hichilema was voted into power because of the previous record he had during the privatisation. Mr Musoma said many Zambians were suffering because the people who were involved in the privatisation programmedid not put the interest of the nation at heart but instead considered their selfish interests.